[2] The ECLI framework also contains a set of uniform metadata to improve search facilities for case law.
This would enable any citizen or legal practitioner to find any decision to which ECLI has been attributed from any public or private register or database in the EU.
[6] Based on the report of this task group, the Council of Ministers agreed on the principles of ECLI and common metadata, and asked the EU Council Working Party on Legal Data Processing (e-Law) to elaborate the initial work.
[6] This continued work resulted in the Council Conclusion inviting the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law of the European Union,[2] decided upon by the Council of Ministers on 22 December 2010.
In the terminology of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records on which it is based, ECLI is a work-level identifier.
It is constructed with the intention to be meaningful, open, technological neutral, recognisable for both humans and computers, error-proof and interoperable with other identifiers.
Documents are indexed by the ECLI search engine in cooperation between the European Commission and data providers, using the sitemaps protocol and robots.txt.
The main responsibilities of this national ECLI co-ordinator are: According to the Council Conclusions, Member States are free to decide on their own implementation route.